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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Huston. The story of Beat the Devil was not lolled together in Ravello. It was written as a novel by myself, and published (same title) by Lippincott in 1951. The lolling began at a lakeside in the Wicklow Mountains-that is to say, I lolled while Mr. Huston read my book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help from Mr. Huston, I did so. This concluded my participation in the affair. Huston later decided it should be more of a comedy after all, and a man (Mr. Truman...
...accomplish. The book intended to tell the people of this country something they need to understand about how our foreign affairs are conducted; it does that job in simple language and in easily understood terms. It is one of the most effective editorials I have ever read. And that's what it is, more than fiction, an editorial...
...Faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament I read with dismay this morning the account of the self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which, in the fashion of Communist seizure of organizations, turned the Committee into its opposite. This kind of a perversion of democratic processes seems to me neither amusing nor tolerable, whether it be carried out by revolutionary or by reactionary intriguers...
...blasting their way through the Washington Post March. Half a dozen puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great...
There are major difficulties in this movie, but most of them will bother only those having read the book. The movie is worth seeing, however, if only because of the humor inherent in its material...